See below full letter from French President, Emmanuel Macron, to Guyana’s President, Dr. Irfaan Ali : On the occasion of Guyana’s National Day and the celebration of the sixtieth anniversary of Independence, I am pleased to extend to you, and to the people of Guyana, my warmest congratulations on this date, which also marks sixty...

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A 33-year-old taxi driver of Goed Fortuin, West Bank Demerara, was on Thursday remanded to prison after being charged in connection with the discovery of ten AK-47 rifles in Berbice. Stephen Rajah appeared before the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court where a possession of firearm charge was read to him. He was not required to plead...

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Police in Regional Division Nine are investigating an alleged armed robbery in Lethem in which the 18-year-old suspect was found dead with suspected gunshot injuries. Dead is Edward Arjune, called “Black Spanish,” 18-years-old of Lethem, Central Rupununi. According to Police Headquarters, the robbery occurred at about 14:00hrs on Tuesday at a business establishment in Lethem...

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(Kaieteur News) – The two-year delay of the Wales Gas-to-Energy (GTE) project is expected to cost the country approximately US$884M more than the initial cost of the two gas plants currently under construction. The two plants initially pegged at US$759M is likely to double due to the increasingly high import bill for Heavy Fuel Oil (HFO), […]

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…move sparks concerns on regional solidarity  (Kaieteur News) – Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago have reserved their positions on CARICOM’s statement on the U.S. government’s “ongoing and intensifying economic, commercial, and financial measures” being imposed on Cuba. The two countries are the lone CARICOM states that are part of the Shield of the Americas – a […]

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(Kaieteur News) – A nurse who was given a parcel of snacks to take to the Mazaruni Prison, Region Seven instead took the parcel to the Bartica Police Station after she said they reeked marijuana. The nurse visited the police station at about 09:40hrs and handed the parcel to the police. The woman told police that […]

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